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I’ve never been what you would call a huge Spider-Man fan. I’ve picked up various titles over my years of comic-book reading and enjoyed them, but maybe not to the same degree as other characters and other series. I guess my loyalties were set from an early age when I first started reading comics in the late Eighties/early Nineties: for a good number of years the only mainstream superhero titles I read featured Batman, and the rest of my weekly comic fix was made up of various independent and less mainstream titles. There was little room for anything else.

Wilson Fisk. The Kingpin. Of all Daredevil’s enemies The Kingpin is perhaps his most ferocious. He’s certainly the one who has caused Matt Murdock the most suffering and pain in his life. Fisk has sought to destroy Matt since they first crossed paths, very nearly succeeding at times.

There have been so many incarnations of Daredevil it would be easy to think the character’s story has been told and there’s nothing new to be said. While he may not have been around for as long as Batman or Superman, like all great fictional creations Daredevil has a fascinating history, a complex personality, and a list of enemies almost as long as the aforementioned superhero stalwarts. This makes him a rich source of story, with new writers able to breathe life into the character. Through comics, film (I’m going to go on record here as not hating the much-maligned 2003 film, but that’s a subject for a different article) and latterly TV, Daredevil has proved to be an enduring and popular character, while never quite hitting the heights of Batman, Spiderman, or the X-Men.

Black Mask Studios continues to publish some of the most original and exciting comic books coming out right now. The diversity of the creators, and the characters and stories they are putting on the page, guarantees an intriguing slate of titles which is being expanded even further as 2016 rumbles on.

Whether it be the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, or other secretive groups of the super-rich and powerful, the idea that a very small percentage of the world’s population controls the majority of the world’s wealth is a pervasive one. Often dismissed as wild conspiracy theories the idea has taken greater hold since the most recent global banking crisis, the aftermath of which has been scant consequences for the people that caused it, coupled with devastating consequences for the people adversely affected by it.